Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Dr Ogbonnaya Onu confirmed this at the Stakeholders’ Forum on the Allocation of 0.5 per cent of the GDP to STI sector on Tuesday in Abuja.
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UN Spokesman Stéphane Dujarric made the condemnation Friday, in New York on Friday, while speaking to reporters.
This was contained in the latest UN data released on Thursday, with nearly nine in 10 killings since 2006 still unresolved.
During the opening rounds of the challenge, participation reached across 40 countries and featured 102 projects.
Having heard about the death after Christmas, President Biden in a statement issued Sunday, said his family was heartbroken to learn about the “passing of a true servant of God and of the people.
Matt Brittin, President for EMEA Business and Operations, Google, made this known at the ongoing inaugural Google News Initiative (GNI) for Africa virtual event.
Matt Brittin, President for EMEA Business and Operations, Google said, “The pandemic has changed the way people interact with news and accelerated that shift to digital. There has never been a time when access to good quality journalism has been more important. This programme will seek to establish, define, and implement the local definitions of excellence in journalism. We will work with the 100 different journalism schools targeting to benefit over 4,000 journalists.”
The alliance is scheduled to be formally inaugurated in January 2022 in Paris, France.
UN agencies chiefs on Monday ahead of World Teachers’ Day said teachers were the driving force behind “global education recovery” from COVID-19.
Babalola, who is also the founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), is reputed to be the largest farmer and highest tax payer in Ekiti State.
Ms Audrey Azoulay, the Director-General of UNESCO, expressed this concern at the UNESCO 33rd session of the International Coordinating Council of the Man and the Biosphere (MAB-ICC) Programme in Abuja.
She made the commendation during a courtesy visit by the director-general of UNESCO, Ms. Audrey Azoulay, on Monday 13th September 2021 at the State House, Abuja.
Makanjuola, a veteran journalist, made the call at the unveiling of a Gender Mainstream Training Manual for Higher Institutions in Nigeria, held in Abuja.
They also urged government to live up to its international treaty obligation to guarantee the safety of journalists and other media practitioners, by preventing attacks on them whenever possible and ensuring that all attacks on journalists and other media workers are investigated and perpetrators of the attack are prosecuted and punished.
UNESCO, who collaborated with Tony International Gymnastics (TIG) club, Abuja. engaged children in gymnastics, basketball, tennis and badminton, on Saturday.
Ulla Mueller, UNFPA Nigeria Resident Representative, made the call in a statement to commemorate the International Day of Zero Tolerance to FGM marked every February 6.
On average over the past decade, one journalist has lost their life every four days, according to the UN Educational, Scientific Cultural Organization in a statement on Wednesday.
UNICEF Global Chief of Education, Robert Jenkins, said in a statement that 320 million children were locked out of school at the start of December.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Durbar festival is an annual religious and equestrian celebration in several cities of Nigeria, including Kano, Katsina, Sokoto, Zazzau, Bauchi and Bida.
The British Minister for Arts, Heritage and Tourism, Helen Whately, made the pledge on Thursday in London when the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, paid her a visit in her office